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Amplifying the Women Who Pushed Synthesizers Into the Future
Lisa Rovner’s “Sisters With Transistors: Electronic Music’s Unsung Heroines” spotlights the pioneers who harnessed technology to do more than “push around dead white men’s notes.”
Daphne Oram, a crucial figure of electronic music history, was the first woman to set up her own independent electronic music studio.Credit.Via The Daphne Oram Trust and Metrograph Pictures
By Lindsay Zoladz
April 21, 2021, 2:44 p.m. ET
When you hear the phrase “electronic musician,” what sort of person do you picture? A pallid, wildly coifed young man hunched over an imposing smorgasbord of gear?